Teacher at Roundhay School about Global Dimension in Social Science project

Young people construct their own slums in Prague, as part of MDG 15

Projects

Global Dimension in Social Sciences Subjects in Formal Education

Global Fairness- Schools as agents of change

Global Fairness is a European cooperation project run in partnership with Austria, Germany, Hungary and the Czech Republic to promote global education.

It works with Child Friendly Leeds to increase understanding of Children's rights locally and globally, through peer education workshops, teacher training and creating Global Learning Charters.

For more information contact

hannah(_AT_)leedsdec.org.uk

World-Class Teaching

World-Class Teaching intends to develop teachers’ capacity to bring Global Learning into the classroom in a more systematic way.

We need you

LeedsDEC would like to invite teachers to join our Subject Focus Groups! The project targets secondary schools teachers of six subjects (geography, foreign language, history with civics, biology/science, & up to 2 other country-specific subjects). It supports and empowers them to deliver quality Global Education within their curricula by offering teaching materials and training programmes which facilitate their use.

Phase 1 aims at developing a comprehensive framework for Global Learning in secondary schools which will allow for more systematic inclusion of global perspective and approaches into selected subjects.

Phase 2 concentrates on developing teaching materials within subject working-groups set-up for this purpose and composed of teachers, Global Learning experts and subject experts. Materials will be inspired by the input provided by the project associates from Benin and Brazil.

Phase 3 will offer in-service teacher training supporting those interested in using the materials developed on the previous stage of the project. A certification scheme is also foreseen for the teachers going through the trainings.

For more information contact Alison Huntley

alison(_AT_)leedsdec.org.uk

News

All of our projects have been funded with support from the European Commission.

The contents of this action are the sole responsibility of the contractor and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.

This multi-national project focused on the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals, particularly MDG 7 - Environmental Sustainability and MDG 8 - Global Partnerships. UK teachers were given the opportunity to work with teachers and sustainability experts from India, Senegal, Ireland, Belgium, Czech Republic and Poland to develop teaching materials and share good practice. The project also gave students across each of the partner countries the opportunity to exchange ideas on participation and active citizenship. The project offered accreditation for the new Global Teacher Award to participating teachers.

This project worked with partner schools in Bulgaria, Estonia, Slovenia, Latvia, and Portugal, to raise awareness about the Millennium Development Goals and Poverty Reduction. The aim of the project was to support teachers with training and resources to become more informed about the real issues that underpin global poverty so that they feel confident and inspired to incorporate global social justice issues into their lessons.

Resources, lessons, newsletters and student actions are available on the project learning platform/moodle to schools who join us. Our amazing Action for Social Justice DVD is now available to buy for only £5